Lectures on legal history / by W. J. V. Windeyer.

Sydney : Law Book, 1957.

2nd edition

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Law -- History -- Great Britain.

I. Before the Norman conquest

II. Civil law and canon law in Europe in the twelfth century

III. English law under Norman Kings (1066-1154)

IV. Henry II - the King's court and the beginnings of the common law

V. Trial by jury - criminal law and trial on indictment

VI. The criminous clerks and Beckett’s legacy to the law

VII. The thirteenth century

VIII. Magna Carta

IX. Early writers - Glanvil, the dialogue, Bracton

X. The earliest personal actions

XI. Edward I and the statute law

XII. Law books of the time of Edward I

XIII. Trespass, assumpsit, trover and case

XIV. The common law courts - their history and procedure before the judicature acts

XV. Justices of the peace and coroners

XVI. The lawyers

XVII. The year books

XVIII. The later middle ages

XIX. Fortescue, Littleton, St. Germain

XX. The sixteenth century

XXI. The prerogative courts

XXII. Early mercantile and maritime law and the history of the court of admiralty

XXIII. The action of ejectment

XXIV. After the year books - law reports and abridgements

XXV. The seventeenth century

XXVI. The reign of James I and the beginning of the struggle between the prerogative and the law

XXVII. Sir Edward Coke

XXVIII. Charles I and the triumph of the parliament

XXIX. The commonwealth and the restoration

XXX. James II and the glorious revolution

XXXI. The eighteenth century

XXXII. Holt and Mansfield

XXXIII. Blackstone

XXXIV. Equity and the history of the court of chancery

XXXV. The nineteenth century

XXXVI. English law in the nineteenth century

XXXVII. The introduction of English law into Australia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

xxiv, 335 pages. ; 25 cm